Guide page: official scope is live; specific plant rows remain held until screenshots or gameplay checks exist.
Plant Identification and Foraging Guide
How to approach plant, mushroom, and seaweed discovery in Out and About without turning uncertain finds into thin database pages.
Source and verification notes
- Steam Early Access notes state the current version contains 57 plants, mushrooms, and seaweed.
- The official site says the broader game vision includes over 100 real plants and mushrooms native to temperate Europe and North America.
Use a field-note loop
The strongest wiki pages will come from repeated, grounded observations: where a plant appears, what it looks like in the game UI, and what it unlocks. A name alone is not enough.
- Capture the plant card or identification screen when the game confirms the name.
- Write the biome in player language: forest edge, meadow, beach, wetland, peatland, town path, or coast.
- Track whether the plant appears as food, remedy material, quest item, sale item, or collection entry.
- Keep lookalike notes inside the guide until each plant has enough evidence for its own page.
Safe database fields
| Field | Publish when | Hold when |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Confirmed by the in-game card or UI | Only seen in community discussion |
| Biome | Seen in a screenshot or repeated route | Location is guessed from real-world habitat |
| Use | Recipe, remedy, quest, or sale use is shown in game | Use is inferred from real plant knowledge |
| Season | Game UI or repeated play confirms it | Only assumed because current EA is spring |
Game-only safety note
This wiki should explain Out and About gameplay, not real foraging or medical practice. Even when a plant exists in real life, a player guide should not tell readers to eat, brew, harvest, or treat symptoms outside the game.